I don't understand this condition

These games are a completionists worst nightmare. DO NOT play TES games with a completionist attitude - play it to have an experience. You keep restarting because you feel like you could "complete" things better with a certain type. Stop thinking like that!

Think up a badass character that has downfalls and think up another one. I've never "rerolled" because I never play TES games to win - ultimately that's the goal, but I just use winning as a vessel for having the REAL fun- being able to experience something.

My current guy is a paladin werewolf who specilizes in killing undead and necromancers, but upholds the justice of his faith and his fellow were's. This is who I've chosen to try and build up and to complete the game with (which I always do for my first run). My next character I want to make into the ultimate evil badass mage, who more or less doesn't give two [censored] of the mainquest except to gain the power of dragons. The next one I want to be a kajeet theif who turns to assassination somewhere down the line, and doesn't even start the MQ.

That's how you play these games. You don't play to try and complete things for the best scenario, because you will jsut always reroll. Its not until you start doing the above and start realising that there IS no best path to experience an Elder Scrolls game is when you really start having fun with these games.

I always have restartitis D:

This is a common issue for me too with games like this, it's why I could never play World of Warcraft lol. What I've done is taken a few days and in my spare time have contemplated exactly what I want to be. I've decided on a sneaky archer with some magical background, any other build I can make later. It's the type of gameplay I like most, so I'll stick with it my first run through and do others if needed. My first character does everything anyways. It's a battle I always fight with these games, glad to hear I'm not alone!

This sums it up perfectly.

Just stop thinking about what you could have done better, or changed, and go with the flow as you have to in reality. Nothing is perfect, and that is an authentic experience.

Story stuff isn't my biggest concern personally when it comes to my characters I save obsessively enough to find the point before decisions I make and go back and fix it. Hope Bethesda gives us either a ludicrously elaborate potion to put together or an equally involved quest chain to do for respecs. I'm beginning to think I may have to reroll cause life on a hybrid is damn tough in Skyrim. Would hate to have to reroll and lose so much progress quest and level wise.

don't try to make clever builds early game Just stick to a really simple strong build with like 3 main skills! There will be a very clear moment where you can't improve your main skills anymore. At this point you understand your character well enough to diversify.

Sounds like you're making it overcomplicated.

Try playing yourself even creating a character that looks like you. Thats what i did today only because after seeing how much fun it is to play a good guy i couldnt see myself playing an evil Orc Night Blade type right off the bat. Besides by playing good it makes being bad later more shocking and banol

Still have my first character a female Bosmer mage huntress type since shes my first SKYRIM character. My "me" character is my third since buying SKYRIM on release day so not bad at all. Now to make the most of what i've learned this past week. Time to be of service to the good people of SKYRIM :toughninja:

since there r no skill selections i dont see this problem :blink: u make them the way u want as u progress i love it no need to plan

Same here, took me FOREVER to finally finish the main quest in oblivion because i kept restarting over and over trying out new setups. That and the fact the main story in oblivion was boring for me. (mostly the oblivion gates did that for me,the first one or two were cool but after that they were boring as hell and just couldn't find it in myself to go into another)

Well you can always build both, it's hybrid and It can be lots of fun to play both... It's what I did and I still deal insane amounts of damage with both weapons.

So you make more than one character. Just because you want to play this way or that way doesn't make another build obsolete. You seem to not want to be a JOAT, so thats good, but if you do want to stick to classes and niche builds, then just make lots of them.

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Just started again, again going to have to quit for a few weeks

Have the same issue until last night. I decided to stick to my guts and just sling a bad-ass Redguard, Heavy Armour, Restoration, 2H. That's it, I am sticking to it and I am ENJOYING it on Expert difficulty. I hope when the patch comes out, the mage playstyle gets a revamp and proper magicka regeneration in combat too. But that will be my second playthrough!

The whole "erase and start again" thing is exactly why I role-play. The more time I've invested in the back-story of a character, the less
likely I am to just flush it away. Also, I've promised myself that this time I'll be playing three character types: mage, thief, warrior. I also
(randomly) assigned "alignments" to them. (Mage is good, thief got neutral, warrior is evil.) That way I can cover all areas of the game
at different times. Example: my mage would never join the thieves or assassins guilds. I don't spread myself too thin with any of the characters,
so I don't get bored. And even if I missed something with one character, I can always experience it with another.

Thankfully, I haven't had one of those 40 hour flip-outs I experienced in Oblivion. "My gods, what have I done with my (fictional) life?! I
could've been a contende--I mean, a warrior!" Never pleasant. Hm, maybe I should have started this with, "My name is Zero and I'm a restart addict."
Re-Anon, anyone? It's just a 7,000 step program.

Sort of happened to me as well. I restarted twice, but I'm finally satisfied with a character. I realized why I was restarting, and it was since I was losing track of my playstyle. I tend to have some trace of roleplaying, but then I played till I was so tired I just started running around at random and it bored me to death. Now I'm forcing the immersion upon myself, and not accepting every quest people want to give me. Want something done? Do it yourselves, cheap bastards! Or I'll come back later when I'm not occupied.

When I roll a new character I can play for hours on end, but the next day I can't even look at him any more. Besides it's really hard to come up with a unique play style. We all play essentially the same character with a (not so) different face.

No.

Hmm deleted coz I was speculating and people might take it too literally

Oh gosh, that is scary; maybe i understand who i am now. Thankyou so much for linking that, my family always say im weird in sometimes im extrovert and then introvert, sometimes im courageous then im reflective. But how does this explain my restart obsession?

I don't really see the point in re-rolling too often with this game. Any one character you make can be anything. I started out as a mage but then slowly switched over to melee, no problem.

I had no problem as i already had what character i wanted in mind, just put some thought into it next time.

Umm don't play the game then
Go to a doctor hearing voices is bad

I'm having the same problem.

For me it's due to perks... If I spend even 1 perk in a skill that I stopped using I need to restart...

I have the same issue. I have made at least ten or so characters and deleted them all highest level was 25 warrior nord. now I have a warrior nord and I think this one is going much better than all the others because I have put off picking perks. One character I stopped because there was an arrow floating over his head that would not go away that just drove me nutts!

You shouldn't have done that.

If you knew a little more about psychology, you'd know you just don't "diagnose" people over the internet, not even your real life friends. It freaks people out.